Is Anyone Up? was the subject of much controversy. Many individuals sued Moore or those associated with the Is Anyone Up? domain for the display of their nude images on the website. While some images were self-submitted, others were "
revenge porn", which has been described as being "pornographic souvenirs from relationships gone sour". In November 2011, Moore appeared on
Anderson to discuss Is Anyone Up? while being confronted by two women who had been exposed on the website by an anonymous user. When one of the women criticized Moore for "helping" deceptive people who spread such photographs, he responded: "No one put a gun to your head and made you take these pictures. It's 2011, everything's on the Internet." On August 21, 2012, BullyVille founder
James McGibney posted an open letter to Hunter Moore on the main page of the isanyoneup domain, announcing a class action lawsuit and encouraging people to join in.
Incidents Florida rock band
A Day to Remember refused to play at the 2011
Bamboozle festival, knowing Hunter Moore was in attendance. They demanded that he be removed from the venue because they objected to Moore's site hosting nude images of the band's bassist, Joshua Woodard, weeks beforehand. One morning in August 2011, Moore was attacked and stabbed with a pen by a woman featured on the website. Moore managed to escape with a shoulder wound that required surgery. In December 2011, social networking website
Facebook reportedly threatened legal action against the website, blocked any linking to the isanyoneup.com domain through its site, and deleted the official "like" page from its database.
FBI investigation On May 16, 2012,
The Village Voice reported that Moore and Is Anyone Up? were the subject of an investigation by the
FBI, as a large number of the pictures formerly hosted on the site were believed to have been illegally obtained by a hacker known as "Gary Jones". ABC
Nightline revealed that the FBI investigation was started by
Charlotte Laws after a photo of her daughter appeared on the website. In January 2014, Moore and his alleged aide Charles Evens were arrested by the FBI and indicted in a federal district court in California on charges of conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer, and aggravated
identity theft. In February 2015, Moore pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorized access of a computer. On July 2, 2015, Charles Evens pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and identity theft, confessing to stealing hundreds of images from women's email accounts and selling them to Moore. U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee sentenced Evens to more than two years in jail and a fine of $2000. The same judge sentenced Moore in December 2015 to 2 1/2 years in a federal prison with three years' supervision following his release. He also had to undergo a mental health evaluation and pay a $2000 fine. ==Popular culture==